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As for good women these, my worthy reader, are different from us the nature of these is to love, and to do kind offices, and devise untiring charities: so I would have you to know, that, though Mr. Pendennis was parcus suorum cultor et infrequens, Mrs.
Not very religious; mortuos milites lugens plus quam vivos amans, largus in publico, parcus in privato. Constant in love and hatred, false to his word, morose, a lover of ease. Oppressor of nobles, sullen, and a delayer of justice; verbo varius et versutus Used churchmen well after Becket's death; charitable to the poor, levied few taxes, hated slaughter and cruelty.
One finds there almost every thing but religion. SEWARD. 'He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens. JOHNSON. 'Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical. BOSWELL. 'There are, I am afraid, many people who have no religion at all. SEWARD. 'And sensible people too. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, not sensible in that respect.
One finds there almost every thing but religion. SEWARD. 'He speaks of his returning to it, in his Ode Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens JOHNSON. 'Sir, he was not in earnest: this was merely poetical. BOSWELL. 'There are, I am afraid, many people who have no religion at all. SEWARD. 'And sensible people too. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, not sensible in that respect.
Sumus empti, saith Parcus: non igitur nostri juris ut nos mancipemus hominum servitio: id enim manifesta cum injuria redemptoris Christi fieret: sumus liberti Christi.
Hence it may be said, that the laws of the church do not only bind scandali et contemptus ratione, as Hospinian, and in case libertas fiat cum scandalo, as Parcus; for it were scandal not to give obedience to the laws of the church, when they prescribe things necessary or expedient for the eschewing of scandal, and it were contempt to refuse obedience to them, when we are not certainly persuaded of the unlawfulness or inexpediency of the things prescribed.
Parcus Deorum cultor you bowed not often, it may be, in the temples of the state religion and before the statues of the great Olympians; but the pure and pious worship of rustic tradition, the faith handed down by the homely elders, with that you never broke. Clean hands and a pure heart, these, with a sacred cake and shining grains of salt, you could offer to the Lares.
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